Saving Mr. Banks (2013) – Emma Thompson as P.L. Travers (an Australian-British novelist, actress and journalist. In 1933, she began writing her series of children’s novels about the mystical and magical English nanny Mary Poppins)

Grace of Monaco (2014) – Nicole Kidman as Grace Kelly (an American film actress and the wife of Prince Rainier III of Monaco. She retired from acting at the age of 26 to marry Prince Rainier and enter upon her duties in Monaco)

Lone Survivor (2013) – Mark Wahlberg as Marcus Luttell (a former United States Navy SEAL, who received the Navy Cross and Purple Heart for his actions in June 2005 facing Taliban fighters during Operation Red Wings)

Rush (2013) – Chris Hemsworth as James Hunt ( a British racing driver who won the Formula One World Championship in 1976. After retiring from racing in 1979, Hunt became a media commentator and businessman)

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) – Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort (an American former stockbroker. He was convicted of fraud crimes related to stock market manipulation for which he spent 22 months in prison)

Lovelace (2013) – Amanda Seyfried as Linda Lovelace (an American pornographic actress who was famous for her performance in the enormously successful 1972 hardcore porn film Deep Throat. She later denounced her pornography career and became a spokeswoman for the anti-pornography movement)

Fair Game (2010) – Naomi Watts as Valerie Plame (a former United States CIA Operations Officer and the author of a memoir detailing her career and the events leading up to her resignation from the CIA)

Breach (2007) – Ryan Phillippe as Eric O’Neill (a former American FBI operative. He worked as an Investigative Specialist with the Special Surveillance Group (SSG) and played a major role in the arrest and life imprisonment conviction of FBI agent Robert Hanssen for spying on behalf of the Soviet Union and Russia)

Erin Brockovich (2000) – Julia Roberts as Erin Brockovich (an American legal clerk and environmental activist who, despite the lack of a formal law school education, or any legal education, was instrumental in constructing a case against the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) of California in 1993)

Hugo (2011) – Ben Kingsley as George Melies (French illusionist and filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema. Méliès, a prolific innovator in the use of special effects, accidentally discovered the substitution stop trick in 1896, and was one of the first filmmakers to use multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted color in his work)